{"id":1685,"date":"2022-06-23T09:28:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2022-06-23T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T16:28:02","slug":"with-all-that-is-going-on-im-called-to-listen-to-gorecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/with-all-that-is-going-on-im-called-to-listen-to-gorecki\/","title":{"rendered":"With all that is going on&#8230;I&#8217;m called to listen to G\u00f2recki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from Classic Fm<\/p>\n<p>Gorecki: Symphony No. 3<br \/>\nWhat is it?<br \/>\nPossibly the most emotionally draining piece of music ever written.<\/p>\n<p>Why it will change your life:<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a reason Polish composer Henryck\u00a0G\u00f3recki\u00a0called his third symphony the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Each movement features a solo soprano singing texts inspired by war and separation, but it\u2019s the second movement that really stands out. The text is taken from the scribblings on the wall of a Gestapo cell during the Second World War and, as you can imagine, it\u2019s pretty harrowing stuff \u2013 but G\u00f3recki makes it sound so transcendental that it\u2019s hard to believe it was written in such dire circumstances. He said himself that he wanted the soprano line \u201ctowering over the orchestra\u201d, and it certainly does that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Henryk G\u00f3recki on his Symphony No. 3\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sxMRKKemfBQ?start=147&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Henryk G\u00f3recki Symphony no. 3 - Dawn Upshaw (soprano); David Zinman &amp; London Sinfonietta\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mcfy3UmnyDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gorecki: Symphony No. 3<br \/>\nWhat is it?<br \/>\nPossibly the most emotionally draining piece of music ever written.<\/p>\n<p>Why it will change your life:<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a reason Polish composer Henryck\u00a0G\u00f3recki\u00a0called his third symphony the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Each movement features a solo soprano singing texts inspired by war and separation, but it\u2019s the second movement that really stands out. The text is taken from the scribblings on the wall of a Gestapo cell during the Second World War and, as you can imagine, it\u2019s pretty harrowing stuff \u2013 but G\u00f3recki makes it sound so transcendental that it\u2019s hard to believe it was written in such dire circumstances. He said himself that he wanted the soprano line \u201ctowering over the orchestra\u201d, and it certainly does that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Henryk G\u00f3recki on his Symphony No. 3\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sxMRKKemfBQ?start=147&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Henryk G\u00f3recki Symphony no. 3 - Dawn Upshaw (soprano); David Zinman &amp; London Sinfonietta\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mcfy3UmnyDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoted from Classic Fm Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 What is it? Possibly the most emotionally draining piece of music ever written. Why it will change your life: There\u2019s a reason Polish composer Henryck\u00a0G\u00f3recki\u00a0called his third symphony the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Each movement features a solo soprano singing texts inspired by war and separation, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}